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Highland Park Basketball Captains - Jordan Stribling & Jacob Ariyo · The Bubble Lounge (Highland Park & University Park Texas)

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  Speaker 2: Welcome to the.
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  Speaker 1: Bubble Lounge.
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  Speaker 1: I'm Nellie Shudo and I'm Martha Jackson, and today we have the captains of the Highland Park basketball team joining us.
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  Speaker 1: But before they do, nellie and I are going to do some quick catching up.
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  Speaker 2: Yes, we were just at Calibur in Barons this weekend.
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  Speaker 1: It was so much fun, you guys.
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  Speaker 1: I mean you just wouldn't believe.
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  Speaker 1: Everything is just perfection out there.
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  Speaker 1: It's just such a happy place, like they just really know what they're doing.
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  Speaker 2: No, they really do.
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  Speaker 2: And, like, as I always say, I just love going because it's such a Texas thing to do and I just love the clothes that everybody's wearing and the food they serve and the ferris wheel that I almost fell off of and was having a panic attack on with Martha.
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  Speaker 1: Now we did have a little bit of a sound issue, so you'll have to listen closely to hear our dialogue.
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  Speaker 1: But we were literally on the ferris wheel.
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  Speaker 1: We get on there and Nellie, as soon as we're strapped in, tells me she has a fear of ferris wheel.
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  Speaker 2: I'm like I have the biggest fear of heights, and then, of course, they stop immediately when we're at the top.
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  Speaker 1: Oh yeah, to load people on and we were sitting up there for the longest time.
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  Speaker 1: But I mean, it did make me feel a little uneasy too.
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  Speaker 1: But you got to admit it was kind of cool looking over at viewing the action.
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  Speaker 1: It was once.
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  Speaker 2: I relaxed.
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  Speaker 2: But what was funny was I couldn't.
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  Speaker 2: I'm such a spaz.
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  Speaker 2: I could not understand that Sean was sometimes in front of us and sometimes behind us.
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  Speaker 2: Because of the way the chairs go, it just became a funny joke.
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  Speaker 2: He's in front, he's behind us.
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  Speaker 1: It was it was funny, but you know we were talking about watching the TV show Dallas and I was completely addicted to it as a young child when it came out in the 80s.
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  Speaker 1: And if you would have told me you know, when you're in your 50s you're going to be on a ferris wheel with his chick from New York just chatting it up, you ain't mansion is right there.
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  Speaker 1: The whole plate.
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  Speaker 1: I would never, would have believed it.
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  Speaker 2: No, I wouldn't have either and, by the way, like that, informed my vision of what Texas was, because I grew up watching it in New York City, yeah, and I was like, oh my God, that's what Texas is.
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  Speaker 1: It's the Ewing's you know which it kind of is, but that's the extreme and they would have the oil Baron's ball that was out there and they talked about that.
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  Speaker 1: I feel like on like every episode, and so, literally, when I first had the chance to go to cattle bearings, that's all I could think of yeah, I'm going to be living the life that Sue, ellen and JR live.
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  Speaker 2: But of course we can't get in the house.
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  Speaker 2: They don't let you in the house unless you're Shania Twain.
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  Speaker 2: She gets to stay there.
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  Speaker 2: Do you know that?
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  Speaker 2: No, yes, the performers get to stay there.
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  Speaker 1: No way Isn't that cool.
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  Speaker 1: Well, I just found that out.
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  Speaker 1: I've never been inside, but I think that you're fine by not going in.
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  Speaker 1: I just, you just have to.
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  Speaker 2: She's tried, believe me.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, I have tried.
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  Speaker 2: I tried last year.
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  Speaker 2: That's not from lack of try.
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  Speaker 2: They were like get out get out.
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  Speaker 2: So what else is going on?
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  Speaker 2: Martha, like how have you been Well?
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  Speaker 1: I've been okay.
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  Speaker 1: I've just having a little bit of hoco stress.
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  Speaker 1: To be honest with you, I don't really want to elaborate, but it's kind of getting the best of me.
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  Speaker 1: Yes, and I'm just the mom.
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  Speaker 1: I'm not even the person going to homecoming.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, exactly.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, I don't know why these events have gotten so complicated.
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  Speaker 1: I just they're supposed to be happy and easy and everyone has a good time, but it's just it's become complicated.
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  Speaker 2: No, it has, and there's so much navigating, but it is kind of what makes Dallas, dallas and Highland Park.
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  Speaker 2: Highland Park is all of those events that they have.
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  Speaker 2: True, true, I mean as Charles went off to college, he had a big collage of all his pictures and I was looking at all the dances and all the events and all the crazy costumes in quotes that they wear.
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  Speaker 1: Yes, yes, Well, I kept thinking how ridiculous it was last year, especially Alexis's senior year.
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  Speaker 1: It was constant costumes and I thought never again will this ever happen.
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  Speaker 1: Wrong, it's even more an Austin.
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  Speaker 1: There's a party every single night that most requires a costume.
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  Speaker 1: I don't get it.
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  Speaker 1: It's crazy.
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  Speaker 1: What do academics factor into this thing?
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  Speaker 2: Well, speaking of, I'm an empty nester.
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  Speaker 2: Martha still has Blake, but it's interesting because Halloween is coming up and I was thinking I think I'm going to hide from Halloween this year Because I feel like it's a kids thing and usually we have a party, as you know, because you guys come, but this year I'm going to do ugly sweater instead, because I don't want to be the old people on the block greeting little kids with candy.
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  Speaker 2: That's why I feel like, no, it's an empty nester, oh gosh.
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  Speaker 1: It does feel weird.
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  Speaker 1: For years my block has done we call it West Monster, have a little block party and then we kind of phased it out for a couple of years, I guess kind of got off track during COVID.
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  Speaker 1: And now they're doing it again and it's all the young, cute moms with little kids.
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  Speaker 1: And they sent out the email today and I'm thinking am I going to be a part of this?
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  Speaker 1: I'm going to feel awkward like the old lady on the block.
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  Speaker 2: Well, if you do go, I'll walk down and have a glass of wine and walk around with you.
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  Speaker 1: Well, you can at least come down and hand out candy with me.
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  Speaker 1: I will sit in the front on our lawn chairs and we never answer the door, we just sit out in the front.
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  Speaker 1: I like that.
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  Speaker 1: It makes it fun.
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  Speaker 2: It just feels weird.
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  Speaker 2: It's just a transition.
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  Speaker 2: Well.
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  Speaker 1: I mean Halloween isn't just for the kids.
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  Speaker 1: Grown-ups like to dress up too sometimes, that's true.
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  Speaker 2: So have you been going to visit Alexis?
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  Speaker 2: Because I've been going up to Boston quite a bit to watch Charles run.
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  Speaker 2: That's my excuse, I just want to see his face.
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  Speaker 2: Well, I have not gone actually, she has been here for the past two weekends for.
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  Speaker 1: Texas, ou, and then the weekend before she was home.
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  Speaker 1: So we've seen her a couple of times and all is well there, but we haven't gone yet, so we've got to pick a date.
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  Speaker 2: Well, and for all you parents out there, what you realize is one of the big challenges when your kid goes to college is finding your hotel.
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  Speaker 2: Oh my goodness Finding your hotel that's close enough but has all the stuff you want and it is a big deal, right, Because you want to find a place that you feel is like your home away from home when you're visiting your kid.
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  Speaker 1: And then they jack up their rates and $600 a night is a bargain.
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  Speaker 1: At this point I mean, that's insane.
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  Speaker 3: Yes, it is.
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  Speaker 1: For just kind of your basic hotel.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah and yeah.
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  Speaker 1: No, I know what you're saying.
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  Speaker 1: I think that's why I've had some friends who actually bought like a condo or a home or something in the same town, because they go for the games and all that.
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  Speaker 1: They go back quite a bit to see their kids.
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  Speaker 1: So I think it probably makes sense and to just do that.
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  Speaker 1: Well it does, especially if your kid can move into it.
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  Speaker 2: Oh, you know, that's the way to think.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, if they want to stay there?
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, definitely.
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  Speaker 1: You know.
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  Speaker 1: I don't know if you heard this, but there's a bit of bad news that came out over the weekend North Park Santa died.
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  Speaker 1: What the OG.
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  Speaker 1: Can I just tell you that that just makes me so sad.
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  Speaker 2: I know, I did not hear that it happened Friday night.
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  Speaker 2: That's terrible.
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  Speaker 2: I just heard it this morning he was the best Santa ever I know.
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  Speaker 2: He was the real Santa, absolutely Just for any kids so amazing.
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  Speaker 1: Was he really old?
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  Speaker 2: No, he wasn't.
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  Speaker 2: I think he was in his 70s.
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  Speaker 1: He was only 70.
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  Speaker 1: I always thought he was tad older than that.
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  Speaker 1: I was always curious.
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  Speaker 2: Well, because the white beard yeah.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, don't grow a white beard, it will make you look old.
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  Speaker 1: I'll try not to.
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  Speaker 1: I don't know exactly what the circumstances were, but I mean he must have been kind of sick because he retired, like last year was the first year for the new guy to come in, yes, who is equally as lovely.
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  Speaker 2: Yes, but we just all know and love.
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  Speaker 1: That makes me really sad, I know.
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  Speaker 1: I know I texted Alexis and she's like thanks for ruining my day, mom.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, I'm like, I'm sorry, it ruins everybody's day.
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  Speaker 2: I don't have any Because that's the Santa our kids grew up going to see.
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  Speaker 1: You know?
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, for sure, I mean, I totally remember waiting in that awful line when.
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  Speaker 1: Alexis was a baby and then with each kid I have the screaming freak out picture.
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  Speaker 1: Yes, of course, every parent has at least one of those.
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  Speaker 2: I sat on Easter.
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  Speaker 1: Bunny's lap.
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  Speaker 2: Santa's lap, just so Charles would sit there.
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  Speaker 2: Oh my god, it's always me and Charles sitting on Santa's lap, as Alexis got.
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  Speaker 1: I guess probably older elementary she goes.
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  Speaker 1: Mom, it's really awkward sitting on a stranger's lap and asking for gifts.
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  Speaker 1: I'm like OK, enough said.
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  Speaker 3: Now that you've put it that way, there will be no more sitting on Santa's lap.
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  Speaker 1: You do not have to do that anymore.
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  Speaker 1: You are done.
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  Speaker 1: Well, you know, what's kind of scary is that we're talking about the holidays.
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  Speaker 1: I know, because we are.
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  Speaker 2: And it's actually like I said.
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  Speaker 2: I already planned my ugly sweater party because people are getting booked and here we are.
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  Speaker 2: We're almost in the holidays.
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  Speaker 1: I know it, I was thinking about that today.
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  Speaker 1: It definitely feels like holiday weather.
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  Speaker 1: It's very crisp out there, so loving that.
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  Speaker 1: And then, yeah, it's coming.
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  Speaker 2: So everyone get ready.
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  Speaker 2: So, speaking of fall, a great fall sport is basketball.
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  Speaker 1: So we've got our basketball captains on today, yes, and I can't wait for you guys to meet them.
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  Speaker 1: There's only two this year.
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  Speaker 1: Because I'm saying that?
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  Speaker 1: Because in football we had a whole room full of the captain.
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  Speaker 2: But it's a much smaller team if you think about it, Absolutely.
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  Speaker 2: So, anyway, they're great guys and we can't wait to introduce you to them.
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  Speaker 1: So joining us today is Jacob Aureo and Jordan Stribbling, captain's of Highland Park basketball.
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  Speaker 1: Welcome to the show, guys.
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  Speaker 3: It's great to be here.
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  Speaker 3: My name is Jordan Shibling.
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  Speaker 3: I'm a senior power forward.
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  Speaker 4: It's great to be here too.
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  Speaker 4: I'm Jake Ravari, I'm a junior and I'm a shooting guard.
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  Speaker 1: Well, Nellie, you and I have been interviewing a lot of captains and sports teams and things like that, but we've never had only two captains.
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  Speaker 1: This feels so manageable.
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  Speaker 2: It's true, it's true, I love it.
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  Speaker 2: Well, you know, a basketball team is small.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah, I don't know.
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  Speaker 4: Just last year we only had two not-seniors non-seniors.
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  Speaker 3: So yeah, we're the only two returners this year, so we're a lot of new guys, younger guys too, for sure.
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  Speaker 2: And so, jacob, you're a junior who's a captain.
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  Speaker 3: Yes, ma'am, which is great.
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  Speaker 3: That's awesome.
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  Speaker 3: Thank you, it's funny.
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  Speaker 2: So I'm from like a basketball family because I grew up in New York City, so it's the one sport you can play in New York City, right?
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  Speaker 2: So I played from like six to 18.
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  Speaker 2: Everybody in my family played, and then my nephew played on Villanova's winning team, which was so much fun.
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  Speaker 2: Like it's just such a fun sport.
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  Speaker 2: It's my favorite sport by far.
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  Speaker 4: I agree, I like basketball.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, and you're the best athletes out there.
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  Speaker 2: That's my feeling, I agree.
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  Speaker 1: Well, so the season is about to kick off, on November 10th, right.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, that is our first game.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, we actually our official season starts October 23rd, where we could start like after school practice and all that Kind of like how football is practiced in the summer before school starts, like that's kind of how it works.
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  Speaker 2: What age did each of you start playing?
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  Speaker 4: I didn't really start playing like competitive until like 10, but like ever since I was like maybe like four, I've always been like dribbling basketball, but I haven't really competitively until like 10.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, I played YMCA at like five years old.
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  Speaker 3: I was on like the Celtics, I remember.
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  Speaker 2: Well, it's funny because they say that, like committing to a sport doesn't happen until you're like early in your early teens, you know, and then that's okay, right, just that you're athletic along the way, which you both were, it sounds like.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, I mean I played three sports up until I guess eighth grade year.
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  Speaker 3: I played football, basketball and baseball, and now I'm just basketball and baseball.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah.
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  Speaker 4: So, you narrow it down.
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  Speaker 4: What about you Are?
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  Speaker 2: you playing any other sports, Jacob?
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  Speaker 4: Oh yeah, I play track and field or I do track and field yeah.
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  Speaker 1: Well, this weekend you guys have kind of a cool event coming up at the middle school You're doing a clinic.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, so that's kind of.
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  Speaker 3: That's kind of how we introduce the seventh and eighth graders, how high school basketball runs and how the coaches, how they think and what they want from you and what's how to set yourself up to be like successful.
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  Speaker 1: So there's a lot of new moms out there listening to the show and I know a lot of people out there are probably thinking how do I get my son signed up with Highland Park?
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  Speaker 1: Give us, walk us through the process and tell us what the program's like.
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  Speaker 3: So Coach Peeler and Coach Downen.
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  Speaker 3: Coach Peeler, the head coach.
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  Speaker 3: He expects all of his players to be like the highest level possible.
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  Speaker 3: I honestly think he holds his players the highest standard at Highland Park.
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  Speaker 3: So it takes a lot of commitment, effort and grind every day.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah, it's a lot of discipline and just like I don't know if you can dribble, pass and shoot and you're like coachable and stuff, like you'll play a lot and you'll be fine in the program, but it takes a lot of hard work and stuff.
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  Speaker 2: Well, so, like, walk us through, jacob, like what your, what your schedule is, do you guys?
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  Speaker 2: Do you practice in the morning?
• 13:44
  Speaker 2: Do you practice in the afternoon?
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  Speaker 2: Both, what do you do?
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  Speaker 4: Right now, during the off season, we have to lift three times or yeah, three times a week in the morning, and then after that we have basketball in the middle of the day, and then after that, like after school.
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  Speaker 4: If you want to like get shots up or something, you can do that too.
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  Speaker 3: Okay, so our workouts are at 6.15 in the morning, we do three times a week and then our practice is fit period during the day.
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  Speaker 3: So you get fifth period and then lunch after.
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  Speaker 3: So you get like two periods of non-school, which is fun, which is it's also unique because it's like the only sport that does that Cause, like soccer's first period, which is like before school and football and every other sports.
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  Speaker 3: Eighth period, which is after school, so it brings like a unique part of Phylin Park.
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  Speaker 1: Well, I've been watching at the last dance.
• 14:26
  Speaker 1: That's all about Michael Jordan.
• 14:27
  Speaker 1: Have you guys seen it?
• 14:28
  Speaker 4: Yeah, I love that show.
• 14:30
  Speaker 1: I'm so addicted to that.
• 14:31
  Speaker 1: I've really been enjoying it.
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  Speaker 1: But just seeing everything that that they, the rigor and all the the workouts and what it takes to be at that level is pretty amazing.
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  Speaker 1: But what really struck me was something you said a minute ago was when Michael Jordan played baseball for a while and then he came back to play basketball and he just wasn't in shape.
• 14:48
  Speaker 1: He wasn't conditioned for basketball, so he had to rework and retrain his body with a lot of lifting and things like that to get back to it.
• 14:55
  Speaker 4: Yeah, we were.
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  Speaker 4: We were on a lot because, like a lot of basketball is just like straight running.
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  Speaker 4: So it's just like getting in getting in condition like, especially if you play a lot like it gets really, really tiring.
• 15:04
  Speaker 2: So well, that's why it makes sense that you do track and field as well, because you really are running up and down the entire time.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah it's hard for a couple hours.
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  Speaker 2: It's a big deal.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, yeah.
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  Speaker 3: So I do play baseball and basketball and I notice in the baseball season I tend to be in less shape, gain a little bit of weight, just get a little chubby, Maybe a little bit it gets big.
• 15:24
  Speaker 3: But like I'm also a pitcher, so I don't need to be able to.
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  Speaker 3: I don't really need to be athletic when playing baseball or like I do, but like not as much as basketball.
• 15:31
  Speaker 3: So I can see how like going from basketball to baseball is.
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  Speaker 3: It's a rough transition.
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  Speaker 3: I mean, I experienced it too, because baseball you have to prepare months in advance if you're like with your throwing shoulder, and basketball you have to prepare months in advance to be in shape.
• 15:46
  Speaker 3: So I get the transition between the two for sure.
• 15:50
  Speaker 1: Well, you also have Meet the Scots coming out.
• 15:52
  Speaker 1: I did meet the Scots with the tennis team and I was so impressed and loved it and I understand that you guys are doing the same thing.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, Meet the Scots is on Monday of next week.
• 16:03
  Speaker 1: October 23.
• 16:04
  Speaker 1: Yeah, October 23.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, and so with that we do the basketball guys and girls together and we do a co-ed game.
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  Speaker 4: We're putting money on the game this year.
• 16:15
  Speaker 2: Yeah, so we're actually going to try.
• 16:16
  Speaker 2: Are you here to do that?
• 16:18
  Speaker 3: Last year.
• 16:18
  Speaker 3: It's going to be cool, though Last year we didn't try as much and it wasn't as entertaining.
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  Speaker 3: So I think we're going to actually try this year and make it fun for the kids.
• 16:25
  Speaker 3: My team's winning, by the way.
• 16:26
  Speaker 3: We don't know the teams yet, but Jacob's going to want to win, I guess.
• 16:32
  Speaker 1: So will it be a blended team?
• 16:33
  Speaker 1: Are girls versus guys?
• 16:35
  Speaker 3: Yeah, it's girls and guys together versus each other.
• 16:39
  Speaker 2: So do me a favor For those who are not Highland Park High School people explain what that event is.
• 16:44
  Speaker 2: What exactly are you going to say to Meet the Scots.
• 16:47
  Speaker 4: Just we go to the gym and we just hang out with younger kids and then, after they come watch us play, and then they come down we sign autographs.
• 16:54
  Speaker 2: So they come from the middle school or something like that, or from your own school.
• 16:58
  Speaker 3: Everyone's invited.
• 16:58
  Speaker 4: Everyone's invited but it's mostly middle schoolers and elementary school kids.
• 17:02
  Speaker 2: People want to be you, yeah and it's free entry.
• 17:06
  Speaker 3: There's food trucks outside before autograph, signed basketballs, get to play with the players before meet them and then it's the game.
• 17:15
  Speaker 3: But we might switch it up this year and do maybe a three point contest to make it more interesting.
• 17:19
  Speaker 3: Ok, We've thought about that.
• 17:21
  Speaker 2: With big prizes if somebody wants it in.
• 17:22
  Speaker 2: Yeah, for sure.
• 17:24
  Speaker 1: Well, it sounds like the perfect family event.
• 17:26
  Speaker 1: Our community is all about coming together for sports, and I think this is the perfect opportunity for these kids to come out and meet you guys.
• 17:33
  Speaker 4: Yeah, I agree, I came to meet the Scots when I was, I think, sixth grade.
• 17:38
  Speaker 4: I really liked it.
• 17:39
  Speaker 4: I really enjoyed it.
• 17:40
  Speaker 2: Did you both grow up in the Highland Park School system?
• 17:42
  Speaker 2: Yeah, yes.
• 17:43
  Speaker 3: I went to Bradfield I went to elementary school.
• 17:45
  Speaker 3: I went to Armstrong.
• 17:46
  Speaker 4: OK.
• 17:46
  Speaker 3: Yes, and I remember being a kid looking up to Prince Dorba.
• 17:51
  Speaker 3: Yes, and he played basketball and football and I just looked up to him in basketball because he was really athletic and good at it.
• 17:56
  Speaker 3: I just loved that part of his game.
• 17:58
  Speaker 3: He's an amazing athlete.
• 18:01
  Speaker 2: So how do you all balance your studies in sports?
• 18:03
  Speaker 2: Because it's a demanding school and it's a demanding sport.
• 18:09
  Speaker 4: I don't know.
• 18:09
  Speaker 4: I didn't really try that bad in school until this year, but this year I spend less time on basketball, but the time I spend basketball is go harder instead, and then so I just go home study, and then I'll just sleep and then go home and I have to wake up and do it again.
• 18:29
  Speaker 3: I have a very high like.
• 18:31
  Speaker 3: I have a very hard schedule this year for sure, even though it's my senior year.
• 18:35
  Speaker 3: I'm playing basketball, preparing for baseball for the upcoming season and doing calculus, which is a very hard class.
• 18:42
  Speaker 3: So it's all the time grind, don't stop, and like.
• 18:46
  Speaker 2: And applications and applications yes.
• 18:48
  Speaker 3: And it's just like I don't know, I just embrace the hardness.
• 18:52
  Speaker 2: Well, we both have ex-seniors who are now freshman in college and we both said how hard senior year like people think senior year is like oh my god, it's going to be so easy and it's not.
• 19:03
  Speaker 2: Like that first semester is so tough, get ready Really, really, really Uh.
• 19:09
  Speaker 4: Doesn't really have to apply to a graduate.
• 19:10
  Speaker 3: The schooling itself isn't super hard.
• 19:12
  Speaker 3: It's just like what's coming, Like the future, Just like oh, I see yeah.
• 19:17
  Speaker 3: It's like school itself may not be hard, unless you take hard classes, of course.
• 19:21
  Speaker 3: But most people tend to ease it up a little bit because technically, grades don't fully matter.
• 19:25
  Speaker 3: They do a little bit.
• 19:26
  Speaker 3: They definitely do.
• 19:28
  Speaker 3: But, like colleges, don't look at your second semester.
• 19:31
  Speaker 1: most of the time they look at your first, that's true.
• 19:32
  Speaker 1: Second semester is OK.
• 19:33
  Speaker 1: You'd have to really bomb, I think, for it to affect anything.
• 19:36
  Speaker 3: Yes, for sure.
• 19:37
  Speaker 1: Yeah.
• 19:39
  Speaker 2: So do you guys know where you want to go?
• 19:40
  Speaker 2: Do either of you have any aspirations, sorry, do either of you have aspirations to play basketball in college?
• 19:47
  Speaker 4: He's committed to Texas for baseball so.
• 19:50
  Speaker 2: OK, very nice.
• 19:51
  Speaker 3: Yes, so I'm more of a baseball player, but I do love basketball a lot.
• 19:56
  Speaker 2: And it informs your sport, right?
• 19:57
  Speaker 2: Oh for sure, they inform each other.
• 19:59
  Speaker 3: Basketball helps with like just staying athletic, and baseball helps with like staying strong which like both are needed.
• 20:06
  Speaker 3: I mean basketball you don't have to be as strong or to be more athletic, but baseball you definitely have to be stronger.
• 20:12
  Speaker 2: So do you chew?
• 20:12
  Speaker 2: I just always picture baseball.
• 20:16
  Speaker 3: Personally, I don't.
• 20:17
  Speaker 3: Personally I don't.
• 20:18
  Speaker 3: It's, yeah, I mean, the baseball scene now has gone from chewing to this thing called Zen.
• 20:25
  Speaker 3: I don't personally do it.
• 20:26
  Speaker 2: What is that?
• 20:26
  Speaker 2: It's Zen.
• 20:27
  Speaker 3: Roads like nicotine.
• 20:28
  Speaker 2: It's like, it's like, it's really just nicotine, but it's in gum.
• 20:32
  Speaker 2: Oh, my god.
• 20:33
  Speaker 2: Okay, I guess we learn about it.
• 20:35
  Speaker 2: Yes, it's not.
• 20:37
  Speaker 3: It doesn't like make your teeth like yellow, like Chewing does, but it's still not great for you.
• 20:43
  Speaker 1: Yes, I guess you don't have to spit any of the stuff out.
• 20:46
  Speaker 2: Yeah, which is always attractive to women.
• 20:48
  Speaker 2: The girls love it.
• 20:49
  Speaker 2: So what about you, jacob?
• 20:54
  Speaker 2: Do you think you might want to play basketball in college, or maybe I'm still thinking about it.
• 21:01
  Speaker 1: Well, let's talk about the upcoming season.
• 21:03
  Speaker 1: What do you think is going to happen?
• 21:05
  Speaker 1: Like, is there any big rivals?
• 21:06
  Speaker 1: That you're going to be playing, that you're looking forward to who to watch out for things like that.
• 21:11
  Speaker 4: We have like a couple big rivals like islands.
• 21:13
  Speaker 4: We're gonna play them twice.
• 21:14
  Speaker 1: Please beat them I.
• 21:18
  Speaker 4: Want to really bad.
• 21:19
  Speaker 4: Double overtime last year is so hard, I like.
• 21:22
  Speaker 4: I like barely played a little bit, but he played.
• 21:24
  Speaker 3: Context was like like Collins, has ranked one last year and we are so close to beating them.
• 21:28
  Speaker 3: Every time we play them we play him three times.
• 21:30
  Speaker 3: The third time we played them, we went to double overtime and just missed our free throws and end up losing the game.
• 21:36
  Speaker 4: So no, I know a lot of people on like islands basketball team too, so I want to beat them really bad.
• 21:40
  Speaker 3: I think our biggest rival this year will be Jesuit, because they were, they were very young last year, and so they have a lot of returners and we, we were very old last year.
• 21:50
  Speaker 3: So People, people, I think, people think Jesuits better than us, so it'll be a big game.
• 21:56
  Speaker 2: Yeah, you know wrong.
• 21:57
  Speaker 2: By the way basketball?
• 22:01
  Speaker 2: Is that the kind of sport that, like anything, can happen?
• 22:03
  Speaker 1: for sure.
• 22:03
  Speaker 2: Okay, really anything can happen in the last five seconds.
• 22:06
  Speaker 2: You know.
• 22:06
  Speaker 1: So true, tell us like a really exciting game that you've been in where maybe we're down and you didn't think you were gonna pull through and then you ended up.
• 22:17
  Speaker 3: So I personally didn't play this game but this is my sophomore year a second round of the playoffs against Jacksonville.
• 22:22
  Speaker 3: At half time we're down 16 and Coming to third quarter, we just started pressing and just had a really big comeback.
• 22:31
  Speaker 3: So I just to me it like it always keeps me motivated to play throughout the whole game, no matter how much down we are, especially because last year, like against play now, we were down like 16 a half.
• 22:41
  Speaker 3: So I just thought back to that moment.
• 22:42
  Speaker 3: I was like we could still come back and we almost got it, but we just ended up losing.
• 22:47
  Speaker 4: Yeah, last year something similar happened to me.
• 22:49
  Speaker 4: It was um, it was against Nimitz, and we were down what like 14 a half and they're, and they're like we were supposed to be in by like a lot, but like we came back and like we won the game by how much like.
• 23:04
  Speaker 2: Two, three early.
• 23:05
  Speaker 2: Yeah, it's exciting about it.
• 23:06
  Speaker 2: It was cool.
• 23:07
  Speaker 4: It was fun experience.
• 23:08
  Speaker 4: I was getting really hype.
• 23:09
  Speaker 4: It was so fun.
• 23:10
  Speaker 4: I was like throwing my towel everywhere.
• 23:12
  Speaker 1: It was fun because, like Flint, flint hatch.
• 23:14
  Speaker 4: You had like a really good game and he didn't really like play a whole lot.
• 23:17
  Speaker 4: Like I loved Flynn, he was really cool.
• 23:20
  Speaker 2: Do you guys ever do like the cut the net off at the end of the season or anything?
• 23:24
  Speaker 4: I think you do that if you win district.
• 23:26
  Speaker 3: Okay, I just wonder I'm gonna yeah you also did, if you go really far in playoffs and especially if you win state.
• 23:31
  Speaker 3: We personally haven't done it.
• 23:32
  Speaker 3: Yeah, this year, this season, yeah, we're filling it for you.
• 23:36
  Speaker 1: We think it's gonna happen yes well, guys, we can't wait to see you play, can't wait to come out to meet the Scots and see, see all that, and we just wish you all the best this year.
• 23:46
  Speaker 4: Thank you, thanks for being on the show, thank you for having us.
• 23:49
  Speaker 1: That's been another episode of the bubble lounge.
• 23:50
  Speaker 2: I'm Martha Jackson and I'm Nellie shuteau, and we'll catch you next time.